(A.C. Jobim, N. Mendonca)

[Recorded Febrary 11, 1969, Hollywod]



This is just a little samba, built upon a single note

Other notes are sure to follow but the root is still that note

Now this new note is the consequence of the one we've just been through

As I'm bound to be the unavoidable consequence of you

There's so many people who can talk and talk and talk

And just say nothing or nearly nothing

I have used up all the scale I know and at the end I've come

To nothing I mean nothing

So I come back to my first note as I must come back to you

I will pour into that one note all the love I feel for you

Any one who wants the whole show show do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ci-do

He will find himself with no show better play the note you know